Day in photos: Dec. 6, 2012

Ruth Nicolaci hugs her son, firefighter Lt. G. Bourne Knowles, after learning the family’s Fairhaven, Mass., landscaping business had been destroyed in a fire.

AP

Soldiers bow their heads during a prayer over the caskets of Army Spc. Tyler J. Orgaard of North Dakota and Army Sgt. 1st Class Darren M. Linde of Montana. The two were killed in a Dec. 3 attack.

AP

Egyptian army units guard the perimeter set up around the presidential palace to keep protesters angered by President Mohammed Morsi at bay.

AP

A Yemeni protester raises her hand — painted with the colors of her country’s flag and the word ‘anger’ in Arabic — during a march in Sana’a.

EPA

This new NASA image, a nighttime shot of Europe, Africa and most of Asia, is a composite from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite. The data was acquired over 312 orbits.

AFP/Getty Images

Syrian rebel fighters sweep a stairwell in an abandoned building during heavy clashes with government forces in Aleppo.

AP

Residents who have spent the past few days wading through mud left by Typhoon Bopha line up for supplies at an evacuation center in New Bataan, Philippines.

AP

Sunbathers lie beneath their coats on the coast of Nice in an attempt to keep their tans despite the cold winter temperatures hitting France.

Reuters

Hassan Mekki, a 32-year-old illegal Sudanese migrant, shows scars on his back from an attack in August by a group of anti-immigrant men holding Greek flags. He was left with deep wounds on his back, throat and neck.

Reuters

Union steel workers rally outside the capitol building in Lansing, Mich., where state Senate Republicans introduced right-to-work legislation in the waning days of the legislative session.

AP

Allister Adams joins a gathering of marijuana smokers in the shadow Seattle’s Space Needle to celebrate the drug’s new legal status in Washington state — though the new legislation prohibits public use.